Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2
Price: $26.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-43099-9
- Binding: Audio CD (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30th June 2008
- Pages: 272
About the Book
Do you know Brazilian Portuguese already and want to go a stage further? If you’re planning a visit to Brazil, need to brush up your Brazilian Portuguese for work, or are simply doing a course, Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills.
Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 is designed to help those involved in self-study; structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Brazilian Portuguese, it has also been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your grasp of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and vocabulary.
Key features of Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 include:
- Revision; material to help consolidate and build up your basics
- A wide range of contemporary authentic documents
- Lots of spoken and written exercises in each unit
- Highlighted key structures and phrases, a Grammar reference and detailed answer keys
- A broad range of everyday situations, focusing on Brazil.
- Supplementary exercises and Brazilian Portuguese language web-links at www.routledge.com/languages
These two 60-minute CDs accompany Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2. Recorded by native speakers, this material includes scripted dialogues, texts and extracts from authentic interviews as well as interactive exercises, and will help you perfect your pronunciation and listening skills.
Table of Contents
Contents
How to use this book
Unit 1 Entre Amigos 1
Between friends
Unit 2 O Brasil
Brazil
Unit 3 Estou em férias!
I’m on holiday!
Unit 4 Aluga-se
To rent/to hire
Unit 5 Dias santos e feriados
Religious and public holidays
Unit 6 Saúde e nutrição
Health and nutrition
Unit 7 Educação e cultura
Education and culture
Unit 8 Esportes e religião
Sports and religion
Unit 9 Mercado de trabalho
Work market
Unit 10 Imigração e desenvolvimento econômico
Immigration and economic development
Unit 11 Política, comunicação e mídia
Politics, communication and media
Unit 12 A ecologia e os índios brasileiros
Ecology and the Brazilian Indians
Suggestions for further reading
Grammar reference
Key to exercises
Grammar index
Topic index
About the Author(s)
Barbara McIntyre has variously been a librarian, tutor in Portuguese, Spanish, and French at St. Andrews and author. Esmenia Osborne is Brazilian. She has taught Portuguese for over 30 years and is currently working as a free-lance interpreter and translator.